Couric to Obama: What Will African-American President 'Mean to You Personally?'

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Just as with all his previous interviews with the broadcast network anchors, Barack Obama had nothing to fear from his final pre-election sit-down, this time with CBS's Katie Couric, who laughed along with him about being a “nervous wreck” on election day, raised Jeremiah Wright not to press him about Wright's incendiary anti-American rants but to ask if the McCain campaign had given its “approval” to a state party to raise the topic, and concluded by fawning: “If things go your way on Tuesday and you become this nation's first African-American President, what will that mean to you personally?”

In the excerpts from the interview conducted Sunday in Columbus, Ohio and aired on Monday's CBS Evening News, Couric posed four questions, starting with “fears that perhaps an unbridled, unchecked, filibuster-proof Democratic majority will overreach and move the country too far to the left. How can you assuage people's concerns about that?”  Instead of hitting him on how much the decision by the McCain campaign and the news media to drop Wright helped him avoid a subject that would have hurt in swing states, she treated Republicans as the miscreants: 

The Pennsylvania Republican Party is starting to run an ad in that state which features your former minister, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, saying quote, “God damn America.” Do you think they would have run that ad without the approval of the McCain campaign?

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Sunday's CBS Evening News plugged the interview with a clip of Couric asking Obama about Zeituni Onyango, whom the Times of London late last week found living in a Boston housing project:

You have an aunt who's been living in this country, apparently illegally, for four years and you campaign says “any and all appropriate laws should be followed.” So, would you support her being deported to Kenya?

A CBSNews.com posting with interview video and a transcript does not have that question, but does have several others not aired Monday night, including:

What did the McCain team do in the course of this campaign that made you the angriest?

The questions aired in the first half of the hour-long Monday, November 3 CBS Evening News (Washington, DC's CBS affiliate did not air the second half, but Couric did not say more of the interview would air in that second half hour):

- Let's talk about single-party rule for a moment. Some critics describe it as all accelerator and no brakes. There are fears that perhaps an unbridled, unchecked, filibuster-proof Democratic majority will overreach and move the country too far to the left. How can you assuage people's concerns about that?

- What are you most afraid of on election day? (“Aren't you going to be a nervous wreck?” And: “Or maybe not sleeping much on Monday night?”)

- The Pennsylvania Republican Party is starting to run an ad in that state which features your former minister, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, saying quote, “God damn America.” Do you think they would have run that ad without the approval of the McCain campaign?

- If things go your way on Tuesday and you become this nation's first African-American President, what will that mean to you personally?

—Brent Baker is Vice President for Research and Publications at the Media Research Center


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Did she ask him if there was anymore she could do for him?

Was she sitting in his lap or did she have her own chair?

 

Keep your fingers crossed people because I believe we can pull this off tomorrow.

 

Barack is going down.

Trust me.

Oh Wow

Senator what publications do you read? Can you name any Supreme Court decisions you disagree with?

Keep your fingers crossed

Keep your fingers crossed people because I believe we can pull this off tomorrow.

It Ain't Over Til It's Over

Wouldn't that be amazing?

Yes it would be.

Barack is going down.

Trust me.

Katie Couric, the face

Katie Couric, the face (literally) of the MSM.

Yeah, that picture says it

Yeah, that picture says it all.

Couric

What a dips**t!

Couric and her soft

Couric and her soft couches, mood lighting, perfect flowers for Obama and Biden both.

And what does she use for the Palin interview? Frowns and a straight-back chair.

Can the obvious double-standard be any more, well,,,, obvious?

Why didn't she ask him: "Senator, exactly why do you want to devistate the coal industry and place the price of electricity outside the reach of the entire middle class of this country? Do you have an estimate of the number of people that will be thrown out of work, out of their homes, off their land -- and can you look into the camera this evening -- the day before tens of millions go to the polls -- and explain why anyone should vote for this"?

Does anyone think this wouldn't be the question to McCain if he had said what Obama had said?

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You're absolutely right,

You're absolutely right, TnT..

Here's Katie with Biden and with Palin.

The pictures worth a thousand words. With Palin, she looks like a Principal scolding a student.

 

Like a principal

And note those glasses with Palin, MB. Yeah, lots of hours went into staging those scenes, because the msm knows it's much more than mere words when it comes to influencing their gullable public.

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Couric

Couric has sold out her country for ratings, such as they are. 

MSM in full bias mode with this endless array of non journalists and entertainers spinning and obfuscating like they were the politicians.     

A sad state of affairs, such blatant dishonesty  

NO OBAMA EVER

Vote McCain/Palin   We can do this thing....

Please. Don't EVER put

Please. Don't EVER put Baghdad Katie and the word "RATINGS" in the same paragraph! They're both zeroes!

OK, on the last Couric

OK, on the last Couric thread I said her next question would be, "May I pick up your dry cleaning for you?"

Scratch that.

Now it's, "May I PLEASE have your baby?"

Naturally

Now it's, "May I PLEASE have your baby?"

You forgot that she'd want insemination done the old fashioned way.

I just realized - Katie

I just realized - Katie Couric has the look and mentality of Kelly Bundy.

Sorry.  She never got the

Sorry.  She never got the kind of whistles Kelly got.

Now, if you mean that empty gaze that says, "How far IS far out?", then you'd be absolutely correct.

I must stand up for Bill Clinton, American Black President

Katie Couric has degraded America's first black President in Bill Clinton. I know he was because he said so and has an office in Harlem and liberals never lie.

I also protest for white people as Barack Obama is 50% white.

I also protest for my Arab brothers being ignored by CBS as Barack Hussein Obama is 32% Arab.

Why is Ms. Couric deliberately being a racist in ignoring the achievement of white American Obama and Arab American Obama?

Who does Barack Obama go into business with? Tony Rezko an Arab who owns slums in black Chicago.

Who does Barack Obama get his house funded by? Saddam Hussein's bagman Nadhmi Auchi.

Obama isn't in business with any black people, only white terrorists like Bill Ayers and convicted felons like Arab, Tony Rezko.

This is not even touching on the subject of homosexuals as why is Katie Couric not championing Barack Obama will be the first bi sexual President?

Couric must be a racist and a bigot to be ignoring these important features of Barry Obama.

 

agtG

 

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Did She Ask?..

All smiles and giggles for "the Rock Star" I guess.  That Baghdad Katie .. she's a peach!

 Did she ax him "The Tree Question?"  You know .. "Senator 0bamalamadingdong: If you were a tree, what kind of tree would you be?" Or this one (always my personal favorite): "Senator DieBabyDie .. boxers or briefs?"

 Hard-hitting journalist, she.

Did she ask him "Senator

Did she ask him "Senator Obama bin Biden: How is that crazy Kenyan cousin of yours, Raila Odinga? Are you sending him a Christmas card this year? One with puppies and baby kittens?"

Infuriating...

You know, Perky-One, I don't think the Reverend Jeremiah Wright would have even in the first place SAID "God damn America" without the approval of the McCain campaign.

 

She is an infuriating person.  I am cautiously optimistic that people like her have put all their eggs in one basket and are in for a rude, rude, rude, awakening (and messy floor with all their yolk). 

Couric's questions

Katie has been depleted of material because her ability to think beyond the absurd is non-existent and that is why her daughter wrote the questions.

Katie's no longer a joke,

she's a ******* joke!  She should get it over with and dye her hair completely blond.  I mean, platinum blond.  CBS's most prominent example of affirmative action.  Wait til her job is taken by someone even less qualified.  OMG, we're doomed.

 

Al qaeda:  The enemy foreign.  Liberals:  The enemy domestic.

Now that's the Katie I know

My career advice, apply for a job at Entertainment Tonight.  That's more right up your ally.

  Jeez. Anyone else wan't

 
Jeez. Anyone else wan't to reach through thier monitor and smack that toothy sh&t eating grin, right off of bubbly's mug.

 

"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. "

- Ben Kenobi on  Liberals, and the MSM.

" The Cake is a lie."   

Did Obama tell Katie

that it will mean that Affirnative Action is a great thing?

Looks like She Just Got some?

Is it me or does Katie look like she just got herself a little Obama-thang or what?

maybe it's not just chris mathews who's getting a "little thrill"!